The Premier League season might be over but the summer's hard work is only just beginning for Tottenham Hotspur boss Mauricio Pochettino.

The Argentine is in good spirits after Spurs finished third in the Premier League table, making it three times in a row that the club have now finished in those top three spots since he arrived four years ago.

Before he walked through the club's doors, Tottenham had not finished in the top three for 28 years and the last of Spurs' managers to achieve it three times in a row was a certain Bill Nicholson.

Pochettino knows he is in a position of power going into a series of meetings this week within the club.

The most important of those talks over the coming days will be the one with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy. The two men speak most weeks, but these annual post-season meetings are used to thrash out what the coming season will bring and the resources Pochettino will have at his disposal.

"I have very clear ideas of what we need to do. I don't know if the club will agree with me or not, but we are going to talk next week to create the new project or what I think that we need to do together again to try to improve," he said on Sunday.

"I think Daniel is going to listen to me of course. You know me, maybe sometimes I have crazy ideas. You need to be brave. In these types of situations, with a club with our unbelievable fans, being brave is the most important thing and take risks.

Mauricio Pochettino

"It's a moment that the club needs to take risks and try to work if possible harder than the previous season to be competitive again. For sure Daniel is going to listen to me and we can create together to help the team move on."

Some have taken Pochettino's words as an ultimatum to Levy, but the manager is confident that his vision for next season is already shared by the club's hierarchy.

There is also a confidence within the club that Pochettino will put pen to paper on a bumper new contract in the coming weeks which signals that the manager is already happy with what he's been promised so far, with reports that there will be £150m budgeted to spend this summer to add more quality to the squad.

The meeting with Levy will thrash out the exact details of those resources available next season, which targeted players can be got and which players he is happy for the club to accept bids for, with Toby Alderweireld and Danny Rose expected to be allowed to leave for the right price.

The duo will also discuss which of the club's stars must get new contracts this summer, with Pochettino happy to push the claims of key players like Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen and Jan Vertonghen among others.

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There are other talks for Pochettino to hold this week, whether in person or on the phone. He will speak with chief scout Steve Hitchen to discuss the latest updates on the club's summer targets.

The Argentine has made it clear that he knows exactly which players he wants this summer from Hitchen's lists of realistic and potential signings and the pressure will be on Levy to deliver at least a couple of those top targets after Pochettino's public declaration of his desire for more risks to be taken.

The transfer window closes earlier this summer on August 9 - two days before the next Premier League season begins and Spurs will not be able to leave it until late in August to snap up bargains as they have done for so many years.

Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy

Pochettino will also speak to academy head John McDermott before he heads off for his summer break. The Spurs boss spends plenty of time in McDermott's office each week, unwinding away from the first team stresses, and they will discuss the plans for the young players for next season.

They will also discuss which of the U23 development squad players will get to work with Pochettino in the early weeks of pre-season in July with many of the first team's World Cup internationals to be given extra time off.

There there are those first team players. All the players have now left the club for their summer breaks, but Pochettino has indicated he will speak with the members of the squad, many only getting a week or so to rest before joining up with their international squads for the World Cup.

The Spurs boss has already indicated that he will speak to the likes of Alderweireld to discuss what the summer and next season will bring for them and what he expects from those who will be remaining at the club.

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Once Pochettino has spoken to everyone he needs to at the club he will head off for his summer spent between his home in England and his one in Barcelona.

While the aim will be to rest and recharge, the Argentine has admitted that he will not be far from the summer's transfer scramble and his phone will be constantly ringing.

"I am going to be here and Barcelona is an hour and half away from London, it is so easy and today you have Facetime and Skype," he said on Friday.

This is set to be an important summer for Tottenham Hotspur, not least with their new stadium set to open in August, and Mauricio Pochettino has some big plans he's looking to put in motion to raise the club's ambitions on that new pitch.